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even after folloing every recommendation posted I could find this game is still impossible. Highly unbalanced. Cannot unlock 4 troops before end with any amount of good stats.
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Garbage game. 1 out of like 5 comments is positive, everything else points to what you'll see over and over again, an absolute dogpile of a game. 1/5
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The strategy I described in my previous message works for beating Hard and Nightmare level. Take it easy in the first map and beat it with at least 5 clicks left. Second map go for 10 clicks left. After that, you have a great advantage thanks to the extra EXP and can rush maps beating them with far more than 10 clicks left. Once you have all companions unlocked and all the Samurai's skills at 4th and the companions at 3rd, slow down as you do not get as much return from the costly 4th and 5th level skills, go back to beating the level with 10 clicks left at most, get silver for upgrades... in the last map take it slowly, you can't expend EXP any longer so do not rush for early completion and kill as many mooks and get as much silver as possible before proceeding to the last battle. Got more than 450.000 score at nightmare level with this strategy.
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You get a huge EXP bonus for each free click after defeating the Daimyo. Market upgrades are crap compared with extra EXP. Track down the Daimyo ASAP. If you find the Daimyo and there are still too many mocks alive, invest clicks on killing mocks around. Ignore everything else. At the Market, first purchase the Tracker skill, to find the Daimyo faster. Next get Regeneration and Extra HP for your Companions (prevents them from dying like flies). Then just invest excess silver (if any) on the +12 EXP consumable. About EXP upgrades, start by 1st level in all the samurai's skills, unlock Brute (the only companion with enough HP to survive without problems), upgrade samurai to 2nd level, upgrade first 2 levels of damage for Brute, unlock Bowman, upgrade bowman's att and att rate to 1st and 2nd level, upgrade samuraito 3rd, unlock Monk, upgrade all your companion's skills to 3rd, keep upgrading the Samurai only (4th and 5th level skills are too expensive to be worth on the companions).
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How I got 5 stars Rank A+: Don't worry about uncovering every last tile. Your first click should reveal 5 tiles; then if you click one diagonal space away, you'll get 5 again. Hunt the mooks immediately after you reveal them; it turns a click into Silver and XP, while also revealing a few tiles most of the time. First upgrade Miner, then Expert Tracker, Regeneration, and Soul Drinker, in that order. After you have those, buy 2 Spies and the +12 XP every Province and only use leftover Silver on Bamboo Armor and Focus: Clones. Buy Monk, then Brute, then waste XP on the useless Archer for the star. Level all stats one time except the ally's Health. Max out your Attack Speed. After finding the Daimyo, only use clicks if they reveal 3+ tiles, or on revealed Mooks or Mountains. Monasteries only if they border at least 1 blind tile. For the star, kill the last Daimyo (before Shogun!) with 10 clicks left. Good luck.
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No thanks, I hate the balancing of this game. Normal feels like a huge up hill battle, that needs near perfect clicks and upgrades. Not my cup of team, and I cant even imagine what the hard difficulties are like.
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Sorry but the damn Shogun province Daimyo level is simply not possible, I constantly get killed... What could be a 4/5 game becomes a 1/5 ! I'll come back when it's actually doable and more balanced !
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game is good but it's REALLY not balanced! Your sidekicks die WAYYYYY too easily, costs way to much to revive them, shogun province (when fighting the Daimyo) is exaggerated, your team gets wiped out like a joke, monsters have WAY to much life and power... You don't make enough XP, not enough to buy your team and upgrade them, they constantly die easily and you have to waste 30 points just to revive them only to see them die super easily again in an instant... This needs work ! When buying heals in the market, it should heal your entire party, NOT just your Samurai... I've done all provinces except the Last one, it's simply impossible, I have to do it all over again, and again and again, just to lose score.... Game is fun and cool but ruined by these imbalances...
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Beginner's tip: if you haven't found the Daimyo and you have the last click left... simply restart. You will lose whatever you did during the area but get no penalty for dying. Yes, you will die if you run out of clicks. I've never died of anything else. Other than that, follow ninjazz guide. Unlike the Ninja, your sidekicks can be easily resurrected when they die so focus upgrades to keep him alive and devastating.
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my "consumables" in the shop still show some "grayed out" items there, which I could afford already. I can buy them, but visually they look like they're still too expensive in that case. still that game is amazing in general ;-)
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Important notice to those who buy more clicks; if you run out of clicks, and buy more, the game will not allow you to continue exploring tiles, even though you just bought more.
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Just so everyone is aware, the game is fairly punishing as far as upgrades and death goes and if played wrong (follow the guide ninjazz posted for help) then you can easily and permanently ruin the save file. It's a standard of Nerdook games that you cannot go back and death doesn't reward you and this game is no different so be aware of this.
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Once the forest and mountain tiles are introduced, I just fail to see which tiles I did not uncover sufficiently to detect the daimyo. The first one I found by accident and led me to realise footprints are, indeed, useless. I want to like this game, but it's just too confusing.
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The footprints do nothing! They just run circles and I uncovered every tile too! What the hell does the daimyo even look like?
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Replaying cleared provinces is not possible, failing a providence causes all progress that attempt to be lost (permanent upgrades included), clicks per providence is extremely limited. All in all, it's a very poor design. If you don't grind as much silver as possible with the limited clicks given, the game quickly becomes unwinnable.
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This game is desperate for some outside consultation. It has some good bones, but in its current form it is completely nonsensical.
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Challenging medium badge. My recs:
1. Locate daimyo first. Use remaining clicks to kill minions and mine silver as priorities. Heal if you need to before daimyo. Save for Superslash on the boss every time. Makes killing daimyo easy. Hunt daimyo by exposing a full cross each time.
2. EXP for building out your whole team first with regeneration skill. Brute, then Archer then Monk. Extra EXP to Samurai evenly, Brute (armor, HP), Archer (attack spd, dam) but priority goes to Samurai.
3. Most skills are crap. Start with MINER for fast silver for more skills. Now REGENERATION, SOULDRINKER, MULTISTRIKE, BAMBOO ARMOR, CHAKRA.
Once those main skills are done, LIGHTFEET, QUICKSTRIKE. Anything else is optional, but focus on general skills and not specifics to one enemy.
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As others have said, since replaying provinces isn't possible, you should keep XP you earn in a province prior to a defeat.
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Beginner Instructions: Defeat 1 or 2 Mooks squares and then try to find the Daimyo to take advantage of the HP restoration. Then defeat more Mooks and use Rice Fields to restore. Upgrade recommend: 1) Focus: Chakra (extremely helpful) 2) Regeneration 3) Multi Strike. I bought the Brute first (doesn't die so quickly) and then the Archer.
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Is 286,000 on Nightmare a good score?
Nightmare Comments
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Mercenary Armor: Makes your mercenaries into better armor for the Samurai.
Chakra Focus: Lets you raise your meat shields from the grave more frequently.
Super Slash: Use once per map to beat Daimyo.
Expert Tracker: Reveal entire map. Click where footprints end to find daimyo.
Farmer: Disregard traps. Acquire rice.
Samurai: Spend all training on samurai. Don't bother training the meat shields.
Brute: Spend excess training on health and armor to improve meat shield utility.
Mining: Samurai do not strike mountains to gain silver. Samurai strike their enemies to gain silver.
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The daimyo was on the booby trap. Was that a glitch, or purposeful? It seems rude to force me to lose 25% health before fighting the daimyo.
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what the point of the game if you can't farm and accumulate silver/exp when you lose? You're stuck with the same shit cards you're dealt every turn and fingers crossed that this highly retarded AI runs in the direction of the enemy instead of pattycakeing in the middle of the battlefield
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Very good game, the problem is, that is nearly almost impossible, when there are only 2 provinces left, i can't go on.